Z205: Burdigalian - Serravallian, Pakistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Mammalia - Proboscidea
Elephantoidea indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium sp. Kaup 1829
corrected as Dinotherium
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Choerolophodon corrugatus
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
cf. Protanancus chinjiensis
Mammalia - Creodonta
Creodonta indet. (Cope 1875)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Artiodactyla
Artiodactyla indet. Owen 1848
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae
Anthracotheriidae indet. Leidy 1869
? Sivameryx palaeindicus Lydekker 1883
Mammalia - Suidae
? Libycochoerus affinis
Listriodon ? gupti
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Progiraffa exigua
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
see common names

Geography
Country:Pakistan State/province:Baluchistan
Coordinates: 30.1° North, 70.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.1° North, 71.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian - Serravallian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vihowa
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Vihowa Formation is late Early Miocene (assemblage B fauna) to Middle Miocene (assemblage C fauna), see Antoine et al. 2013.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Z 205; Zinda Pir Dome
Database number:180630
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-07-22 09:38:52 Last modified:2022-02-14 10:43:57
Access level:the public Released:2016-07-22 09:38:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
59924. E. H. Lindsay, L. J. Flynn, I. U. Cheema, J. C. Barry, K. Downing, A. R. Rajpar, and S. M. Raza. 2005. Will Downs and the Zinda Pir Dome. Palaeontologia Electronica 8(1):19A:1-18 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

79302 P. -L. Antoine, G. Métais, M. J. Orliac, J.-Y. Crochet, L. J. Flynn, L. Marivaux, A. R. Rajpar, G. Roohi, and J. Welcomme. 2013. Chapter 16: Mammalian Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Sulaiman Province, Pakistan. In X. Wang, L. Flynn, M. Fortelius (eds.), Fossil Mammals of Asia 400-422 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/G. Varnham]